Biography

Antonin Mercié, France (1845-1916)

Antonin Mercié is a French sculptor and medalist.

Mercié was one of the most brilliant French sculptors of his generation and, as early as 1868, he received the Prix de Rome, soon followed by awards such as the cross of the Legion of Honor, the Medal of Honor of the Salon of 1874 (for his group « Gloria Victis »), and the Grand Prix at the Universal Exhibition of 1878. In 1900, he became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (where he studied in addition to the Académie de France in Rome) and in 1913, he was appointed president of the Society of French Artists.

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